Itchingly vs Inchingly - What's the difference?
itchingly | inchingly |
An inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.
* 1995 , Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles, A little better than plumb: the biography of a house (page 141)
* 2010 , Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (page 146)
As adverbs the difference between itchingly and inchingly
is that itchingly is with an itching sensation while inchingly is an inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.inchingly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- When the new driveway was completed and cars and trucks could crawl inchingly over it, I lost my patience with moon-science.
- a new, more active world, dominated by animals that move around, even if as inchingly as snails, urchins and crabs.
